Lyrics For You - Bruce Springsteen

For You

Princess cards she sends me with her regards\nbarroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard\nWounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted\nTo her Cheshire smile. I’ll stand on file, she’s all I ever wanted.\nBut you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts\nhoney, get your carpetbaggers off my back\nyou wouldn’t even give me time to cover my tracks.\nYou said, «Here's your mirror and your ball and jacks».\nBut they’re not what I came for, and I’m sure you see that too\nI came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency\nI came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency\nand your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free\nCrawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak\nreveal yourself all now to me girl while you’ve got the strength to speak\nCause they’re waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks\nBut I could give it all to you now if only you could ask.\nAnd don’t call for your surgeon even he says it’s too late\nIt’s not your lungs this time, it’s your heart that holds your fate\nDon’t give me money, honey, I don’t want it back\nyou and your pony face and your union jack\nwell take your local joker and teach him how to act\nI swear I was never that way even when I really cracked\nDidn’t you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive\nable to leap tall buildings in a single bound?\nAnd your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive\nyou could laugh and cry in a single sound.\nAnd your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds\nRemember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god?\nYou were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach\nRemember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach\nAnd the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek\nThat ragged, jagged melody she still clings to me like a leech.\nBut that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way\nlike a little girl with a trophy so soft to buy her way\nWe were both hitchhikers but you had your ear tuned to the roar\nof some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore\nSo you, left to find a better reason than the one we were living for\nand it’s not that nursery mouth I came back for\nIt’s not the way you’re stretched out on the floor\ncause I’ve broken all your windows and I’ve rammed through all your doors\nAnd who am I to ask you to lick my sores?\nAnd you should know that’s true…\nI came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency\nI came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency